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Author : Mickey G. Broman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Nevada Ghost Town Trails written by Mickey G. Broman and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley W. Paher
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Nevada Ghost Towns & Mining Camps written by Stanley W. Paher and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The detailed history of Nevada's ghost towns are chronicled along with numerous B/W photos of more than 575 mining sites and towns.
Author : Diane Siebert
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0618096736
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Rhyolite written by Diane Siebert and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A poem describing the rise and fall of Rhyolite, a town in the desert of southwestern Nevada which grew from one gold claim to a town of 10,000 people, then, a few years later, was deserted.
Author : Shawn Hall
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439623228
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of Southern Nevada written by Shawn Hall and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-02-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] photo-packed look at Southern Nevada’s boom-and-bust civic casualties” (Las Vegas Review-Journal). Ghost towns and mining camps are the last remaining vestiges of the Old West; there is a mystique surrounding these places that has made exploring them a pastime for many in the western United States. Nevada has more than a thousand of these boom-and-bust towns. Some are completely abandoned, while some still struggle to survive and even serve as county seats. Sadly, these wonderful places, including those covered in this volume, are constantly in danger from vandalism and neglect. Many ghost towns and mining camps have been destroyed or damaged needlessly, and those who are captivated by their charm must protect these windows into history so that they survive for future generations. Includes photos! “Few folks know as much about Nevada ghost towns as author Shawn Hall.” —Nevada Appeal
Author : Maria E. Brower
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738546926
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (469 download)
Download or read book Gold Rush Towns of Nevada County written by Maria E. Brower and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nevada County is webbed with some of the richest veins of goldbearing quartz in the world. First discovered in 1849 as placer gold washed into creek beds, hydraulic miners later used massive jets of water to melt mountains and free the precious metal. Rich lodegold districts such as Grass Valley and Nevada City were the most productive in California, and innovations such as hydraulic mining began here and spread throughout the nation. Whimsical names like You Bet, Red Dog, Rough and Ready, French Corral, and Blue Tent hint at the colorful beginnings of dozens of camps that grew from wild and chaotic tent towns to bustling young communities, complete with schools, churches, and businesses. Boomtowns North San Juan, North Bloomfield, and Columbia propelled Nevada County to the head of the state's economy by 1900 and hundreds of miles of gold-bearing quartz veins continued to be tapped in underground tunnels for another 50 years or more.
Author : Philip Varney
Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN 13 : 1610600908
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns of the Mountain West written by Philip Varney and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2010-07-04 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rocky Mountain and Great Basin states are the heart of ghost-town country. Once-bustling pioneer outposts, mining camps, lumber towns, and railroad villages stand today as reminders of the glory days of gold rushes, industrial progress, and that pioneering spirit of the Old West. This book guides readers to the fascinating and scenic ghost towns of Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah, and Nevada. Varney highlights popular tourist destinations as well as out-of-the-way spots unfamiliar even to natives of the region. Maps, historical background, and stunning color photographs bring to life dozens of ghost towns and provide practical information for exploring this fascinating chapter of American history.
Author : Philip Varney
Publisher : Voyageur Press (MN)
ISBN 13 : 0760350418
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns of the West written by Philip Varney and published by Voyageur Press (MN). This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Ghosts Towns of the West is the essential guidebook to the glory days of the Old West! Ghost Towns of the West blazes a trail through the dusty crossroads and mossy cemeteries of the American West, including one-time boomtowns in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. The book reveals the little-known stories of long-dead soldiers, American Indians, settlers, farmers, and miners. This essential guidebook to the historic remains of centuries' past includes maps, town histories, color and historical photographs, and detailed directions to these out-of-the-way outdoor museums of the West. Plan your road trips by chapter--each section covers a geographic area and town entries are arranged by location to make this the most user-friendly book on ghost towns west of the Mississippi. Ghost towns are within a short drive of major cities out West, and they make excellent day trip excursions. If you happen to be in or near Los Angeles, Phoenix, Las Vegas, or El Paso, for example, you ought to veer towards the nearest ghost town. Western ghost towns can also easily be visited during jaunts to national parks, including Grand Canyon, Yosemite, Crater Lake, Mount Rainier, Glacier, Yellowstone, and many others throughout the West. Ghost Towns of the West is a comprehensive guide to former boomtowns of the American West, covering ghost towns in eleven states from Washington to New Mexico, and from California to Montana. This book has everything you need to learn about, visit, and explore a modern remnant of how life used to be on the Western range"--
Author : Lambert Florin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875643267
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (432 download)
Download or read book Nevada Ghost Towns written by Lambert Florin and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice Oberding
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811712389
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)
Download or read book Haunted Nevada written by Janice Oberding and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2013-08-11 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Silver State's most bizarre and creepy stories of paranormal activity, including . . . The Lost City outside Las Vegas Lynching apparitions on downtown Reno's Wedding Ring Bridge The haunted Goldfield Hotel The cursed airbase in Tonopah Apparitions of celebrities at Cal Neva Resort in Lake Tahoe, including Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, and gangster Sam Giancana
Author : Robert Silverberg
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0821441094
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns of the American West written by Robert Silverberg and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the American mining frontier can be traced through the ghost towns that dot the western landscape to this day, from the camps of California’s forty-niners to the twentieth-century ruins in the Nevada desert. These abandoned towns mark an epoch of high adventure, of quick wealth and quicker poverty, of gambling and gunslinging and hell-raising. Those who have seen the Old West movies sometimes think that the legends of the Wild West were invented by screenwriters. The ghost towns remain, and their battered ruins testify that the legends are true. Behind the tall tales is a history where a fortune could be made in a week and lost over the course of an evening. With a historian’s attention to fact and a novelist’s gift for dramatic storytelling, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg brings these adventures back to life in the rowdy splendor of their heyday in Ghost Towns of the American West. History and travelers’ tales are woven together with clarity and wit to create a lively account of a fascinating era in our history. Lorence Bjorklund’s illustrations, rich in detail, portray the ghost towns in their glory and in their dusty decline.
Author : Clifford Alpheus Shaw
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781536908008
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Aurora, Nevada 1860-1960 written by Clifford Alpheus Shaw and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite a century of history, and the valiant efforts of all those who believed the town would last forever, Aurora, Nevada, is now and forevermore a "Colossal Wreck" slowly returning to its beginnings-a sagebrush and pinyon pine covered valley home to jackrabbits and a few ghosts from the past. While Aurora is gone, its historical record remains, thus providing us the opportunity to reconstruct the town and its society if only in our imagination. Most historical accounts about Aurora have focused on the town during its early 1860s mining boom. However, Aurora's rich and colorful history deserves a closer look. This new reference-oriented publication includes hundreds of edited and annotated newspaper clippings and other firsthand accounts about Aurora's buildings, businesses, major mines, social life, Paiute citizens, ghost town days, and final destruction over the entire length of its century-long history. It also includes directories for the boom years 1864, 1880, and 1915, as well as 6 maps and over 150 photographs, many of which are "then and now" comparisons of the same view.
Author : Donald C. Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780871085412
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Nevada written by Donald C. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Nevada Treasure Hunters Ghost Town Guide written by and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Helen S. Carlson
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874174031
Total Pages : 633 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Nevada Place Names written by Helen S. Carlson and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 1974-01-01 with total page 633 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and researcher Helen Carlson spent almost fourteen years searching for the origins of Nevada’s place names, using the maps of explorers, miners, government surveyors, and city planners and poring through historical accounts, archival documents, county records, and newspaper files. The result of her labors is Nevada Place Names, a fascinating mixture of history spiced with folklore, legend, and obscure facts. Out of print for some years, the book was reprinted in 1999.
Author : Shawn Hall
Publisher : University of Nevada Press
ISBN 13 : 0874170109
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (741 download)
Download or read book Romancing Nevada'S Past written by Shawn Hall and published by University of Nevada Press. This book was released on 2016-06-01 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on county records, newspaper microfilm, personal interviews, and on-site investigation, Hall provides the reader with a history of 175 significant sites, rendering a treasury of interesting facts on every page. This book blends history and old photographs with an update on the present condition of each ghost town or landmark. The sites and towns are arranged alphabetically, county by county, for quick reference.
Author : Cecile Page Vargo
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738595209
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)
Download or read book Cerro Gordo written by Cecile Page Vargo and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By the last quarter of the 20th century, Jody Stewart and Mike Patterson found themselves owners of the rough and tumble camp that helped Los Angeles turn into a thriving metropolis because of silver and commercial trade. Cerro Gordo found new life, second to Bodie, as California's best-preserved ghost town.
Author : Don Ashbaugh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Nevada's Turbulent Yesterday written by Don Ashbaugh and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
